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In these intimate essays

you will gain a new understanding of the current problems within Nichren Shoshu as well as a clearer picture of where our kosen-rufu movement must go in the future

from where few exiles ever return alive

Ranked among the most important works in Mahayana Buddhism

Ode to the Grand Spirit daily guidance In these intimate essays'There is life hidden within stones. Only we human beings can give meaning to all things in the cosmos through thought and words'. With these haunting and resonant words did Kyrgyz writer and novelist Chingiz Aitmatov, who died in June 2008, summarise the dialogue that he undertook with leading Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Aitmatov is best known for his novella 'Jamila', on the publication of which he achieved great fame in the Soviet Union in 1958.

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